A cylindrical copper conductor with radius carries a current . If the radius is doubled to while keeping the current the same, and assuming the electric field within the conductor remains uniform, how does the drift velocity of electrons change?
It remains the same.
It doubles.
It becomes one-half.
It becomes one-fourth.
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